No, Ella is not awaiting a date with the hangman. This is not a gallows but the new deck that's being constructed on the back of our house, and Ella is eagerly awaiting the day when the second level is complete and the back door out of our
It's been almost three weeks since we moved into our new apartment, but I remember it like it was ... well, twenty days ago. Things were going great. Three strong men had made short work of our boxes, which were now stacked neatly in the truck. █████ and her mother
So Wednesday afternoon I smelled natural gas in my home office. Some of you will recall what happened a couple of years ago when I smelled gas in our Queens apartment but didn't call the gas company until after I'd gone to work. This time was
Speaking of which, the basement disaster has made █████ and me feel better about the fact that we have to move before the middle of January. Yes, the landlord managed to sell the house for right around his megabuck target. Bully for him, you know? Twelve days on the market—the
After sawing and pounding and power-tooling away all night and all day, the people upstairs have apparently finished building themselves a piano. Five and a half blissful years of peace and quiet in this apartment, and now there's suddenly someone playing bad music badly on an instrument that&
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